Website accessibility statement

Our policy

Newsline recognises and values the provision of information on this website in a format which is accessible to all, regardless of ability or disability.

To ensure that this happens, we have programmed our website following published web standards and accessibility guidelines. The site is developed using valid XHTML and cascading style sheets (CSS). Our site content is separated from presentational elements, which makes it available to any visitors that use technologies such as a screen reader or text only browser.

You may confirm the validity of our XHTML and CSS using these links:

Links coming soon

What is an accessible website?

An accessible site is open to all users.

An accessible website does not exclude anybody due to:

their abilities, or

the method they choose to access the web

Accessible websites prioritise clear content, structure and ease of navigation over frilly aspects of design, however they also need not be visually unattractive, nor are they prevented from using the latest web technologies, provided that all information is still accessible to users.

Change text size

You can use the icons at the top of every web page to change the size of the text that appears on this website.

The icon above changes the page to a large text size and high visibility colour scheme.

You may also use your browser settings to change the text size for all the websites that you visit. The technique for doing this is slightly different depending on the browser that you use:

Internet Explorer 7/8: Select the 'Page' menu, then one of the options under 'Zoom' or 'Text Size'. The default setting is 'Medium'

Internet Explorer 6: Select the 'View' menu, and select one of the options under 'Text Size'